Katherine McArdle

KB attended the University of Rhode Island for her undergraduate degree, and began her fisheries career as an intern in the Office of Law Enforcement. She worked for a short period for the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service as a Park Ranger at the Parker River Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport, MA. She later joined the Northeast Center’s Fisheries Sampling Branch (FSB) in 2001 as a Data Debriefer, later becoming the Lead Data Editor and Data Quality Lead. In 2010 she became the Groundfish Fishery Lead.  She assumed the Branch Chief position of the Fisheries Monitoring Operations Branch in the fall of 2020 and most recently assumed the role of Division Director in 2024.